# forck.live — 26 August – 1 September 2024 > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed first-party announcement of ISO week 2024-W35, 26 August – 1 September 2024, newest first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days — but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives, so a closed week can still gain entries. Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite. `Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it. `Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about the announcement. `Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note. `Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not. One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`. Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. - This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2024-W35 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replicate — Fine-tune FLUX.1 to create images of yourself - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2024-08-30 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-flux-with-faces - Record: https://forck.live/items/2515-fine-tune-flux-1-to-create-images-of-yourself - Subject: Platform Replicate published a blog post on August 30, 2024, providing a step-by-step guide on how to fine-tune the FLUX.1 image generation model using personal images to create customized images. The guide covers gathering training images, choosing a trigger word, training via the web-based form, and generating images. ### Harvey — Introducing BigLaw Bench - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2024-08-29T18:48:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/introducing-biglaw-bench - Record: https://forck.live/items/17729-introducing-biglaw-bench - Subject: Harvey Harvey introduced BigLaw Bench, a public version of its internal dataset for evaluating large language models on complex legal tasks. The benchmark uses bespoke rubrics to score model responses on real-world billable tasks, measuring both answer quality and source verifiability. Harvey reported that its proprietary models significantly outperform publicly available LLMs, but all models show substantial room for improvement compared to full completion of tasks performed by lawyers. ### Supabase — In-Browser Semantic AI Search with PGlite and Transformers.js - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-08-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/in-browser-semantic-search-pglite - Record: https://forck.live/items/21400-in-browser-semantic-ai-search-with-pglite-and-transformers-js - Subject: Supabase Supabase published a guide demonstrating how to build a fully local, in-browser semantic search experience using PGlite to store text and embeddings in IndexedDB, pgvector for inner product search, and Huggingface's Transformers.js with Supabase/gte-small to generate embeddings. The post includes code examples and a video demo. ### LG AI Research — [ICML 2024] Solving Combinatorial Optimization with the Diffusion Model - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-08-29 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=472 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4833-icml-2024-solving-combinatorial-optimization-with-the-diffusion-model - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research presented a paper at ICML 2024 titled 'CADO: Cost-Aware Diffusion Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization through RL fine-tuning,' which combines reinforcement learning with a diffusion model to solve combinatorial optimization problems. The blog also discusses combinatorial optimization in industry and LG's work on PCB wiring using the Pathfinder++ heuristic algorithm. ### Alibaba — Qwen2-VL: To See the World More Clearly - Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com) - Announced: 2024-08-28T16:24:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2-vl/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/2309-qwen2-vl-to-see-the-world-more-clearly - Subject: Qwen Alibaba released Qwen2-VL, a vision language model with state-of-the-art image understanding and the ability to understand videos over 20 minutes. ### Vercel — Introducing the Vercel Marketplace - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-08-28T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-the-vercel-marketplace - Record: https://forck.live/items/20955-introducing-the-vercel-marketplace - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel launched the first version of its Marketplace, supporting storage solutions from Supabase, Redis, and Upstash at the same price as going direct. The Marketplace offers integrated billing and direct connections to provider consoles. Existing Vercel Postgres and Vercel KV stores will be automatically migrated to Neon and Upstash respectively starting in November, with no downtime required. ### Vercel — Enhancing security of backend connectivity with OpenID Connect - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-08-28T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/enhancing-security-of-backend-connectivity-with-openid-connect - Record: https://forck.live/items/20954-enhancing-security-of-backend-connectivity-with-openid-connect - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel introduced support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) Federation, enabling developers to replace long-lived credentials stored in environment variables with short-lived, RSA-signed JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for external requests in builds and Vercel Functions. The feature integrates with major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Firebase, and GCP, allowing automated token issuance and rotation to reduce security risks. ### Supabase — Supabase + Vercel Partnership - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-08-28 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-vercel-partnership - Record: https://forck.live/items/21401-supabase-vercel-partnership - Subject: Supabase Supabase announced a first-party integration with Vercel, allowing developers to create, manage, and delete Supabase databases directly from the Vercel dashboard with unified billing. The integration supports Vercel Templates and automatically injects credentials into the Vercel environment. Pricing remains the same as on the Supabase platform, including two free databases. ### Cartesia — The on-device intelligence update - Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai) - Announced: 2024-08-28 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/on-device - Record: https://forck.live/items/8030-the-on-device-intelligence-update - Subject: Sonic / Ink Cartesia announced Edge, an open-source library for on-device state space models; Rene, an open-source 1.3B parameter language model; and Sonic On-Device, a generative voice model in private beta, as part of its on-device intelligence update. ### Harvey — Harvey and Icertis Partner for Enterprise Contracting - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2024-08-27T21:07:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/harvey-and-icertis-partner-for-enterprise-contracting - Record: https://forck.live/items/17730-harvey-and-icertis-partner-for-enterprise-contracting - Subject: Harvey Harvey announced a partnership with Icertis to integrate its domain-specific legal AI models into Icertis's Contract Lifecycle Management platform. This is the first time Harvey's models are available through a third-party CLM. The integration will allow Icertis users to extract and analyze contract terms using Harvey's models, with initial availability to a select group of customers and general availability planned before the end of 2024. ### LG AI Research — [ICML 2024] Tabular Learning Research Trends - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-08-27 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=466 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4834-icml-2024-tabular-learning-research-trends - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research's Data Intelligence Lab presented a paper on self-supervised learning for tabular data at ICML 2024, along with a review of 14 tabular domain-specific papers at the conference, including a detailed summary of the CHARMS methodology for image-tabular multimodal learning. ### Hugging Face — Scaling robotics datasets with video encoding - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-08-27 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/video-encoding - Record: https://forck.live/items/1834-scaling-robotics-datasets-with-video-encoding - Subject: Platform Hugging Face introduces a new LeRobotDataset format that uses video encoding to compress robotics datasets, reducing size to an average of 14% of original while preserving training capabilities, along with visualization tools. ### Replit — Introducing Deployment Rollbacks - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2024-08-26T18:20:34+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/introducing-deployment-rollbacks - Record: https://forck.live/items/17991-introducing-deployment-rollbacks - Subject: Replit Agent Replit introduced deployment rollbacks, a feature that lets users restore a previous successful deployment in one click. The rollback process skips the provision, build, and bundle stages, promoting only the existing image to save resources and accelerate deployment. Replit stores up to the five most recent builds for each deployment, and rollbacks are only possible if the old build is still available. ### OpenAI — Personalizing education with ChatGPT - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-08-26T04:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/asu - Record: https://forck.live/items/718-personalizing-education-with-chatgpt - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Arizona State University is adopting ChatGPT across its campus to personalize learning, advance research, and prepare students for the future. ### Supabase — Supabase Launch Week 12 Hackathon - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-08-26 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-lw12-hackathon - Record: https://forck.live/items/21402-supabase-launch-week-12-hackathon - Subject: Supabase Supabase announced a hackathon starting September 13, 2024, with prizes in five categories including best overall project and best use of AI. Participants can enter as individuals or teams of up to four, must use Supabase, and retain all rights to their submissions. ### Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha launches PhariaAI: The enterprise-grade operating system for generative AI combining future-proof sovereign design with LLM explainability and compliance - Company: Aleph Alpha (aleph-alpha.com) - Announced: 2024-08-26 - Category: product-launch - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/phariaai-launch - Record: https://forck.live/items/16863-aleph-alpha-launches-phariaai-the-enterprise-grade-operating-system-for - Subject: Kolibri / PhariaAI Aleph Alpha launched PhariaAI, an enterprise-grade operating system for generative AI that supports hybrid execution, explainability, and auditability for enterprise and public sector customers. As part of the launch, Aleph Alpha Research released two 7B foundation models, Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control and Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control-aligned, along with the complete training code, which is publicly available for non-commercial research and educational purposes.